skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why did you decide to use a local LLM for that use case?
I, personally, cannot _think_ and _talk_ at the same time. It's just a stream of half-sentences, many of which my brain has already moved on from because what I originally thought won't work.

After writing this article it became very apparent to me that I'm complete garbage at interviews, but I'll outperform and exceed at the actual job function.
That's the case for most traffic calming, isn't it?
Rerendering each frame is wasteful because it keeps hardware from reaching deeper power-saving states. This includes the CPU, GPU and even the display, due to technologies such as FreeSync. On modern hardware, even removing the blinking cursor has been found to save quite a bit of power, by eliminating needless screen redraws.
Yes of course, if you're engaged in low level criminal behaviour, then even these low levels of obfuscation will keep some pressure off your back. But since copyright law is somewhat of a grey area in the EU, you technically don't even need a VPN for that. You could run a VPS somewhere and get the same results much cheaper. But this kind of use case is not something VPN providers can advertise with anyways, so my point remains unchanged.
I think in most places that bedrooms just need two means of egress plus possibly a specific ventilation requirement, which is most commonly met via a door plus a window, but could be met by two doors to two different legal means of egress (and an HRV/ERV if ventilation is required under locally adopted code).
Could it possibly be different in Brazil?

iPhones are not ubiquitous here, and they're way more expensive than other options.
I'm surprised I'd had to scroll so far down to find orthodox file managers mentioned (Norton commander, midnight commander, etc.)

Bezroukov has written about the type of TUI he calls "orthodox interfaces" and he does it more justice than I can: https://softpanorama.org/Articles/introduction_to_orthodox_f...
Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface (2012)
The good: this seems like a necessary step towards standards-based development

The worrying: we might be setting up for a scenario where newer developers are bewildered by mixed paradigms within what was (at least once upon a time) a simple library

Full disclosure I work for Mux (OP), so as a team we're web component fans, but I'm personally still almost exclusively writing React. So...personally, saying this with love, but add this to all the new esoteric hooks in React 19 and it feels like React might be losing the plot.
I'm a coffee snob and I can respect your preferences but have you considered non-coffee alternatives? Japanese and Chinese tea culture can be fun to delve into and tea would probably be easier on your stomach.
Yup. I initially thought that it would be a good idea for me to major in Computer Science.
For some reason I majored in Finance after a few years of electrical engineering courses.
I don't think I'd be programming today if I had to be force fed programming assignments.
Just because the defense is stronger doesn't guarantee it will always win. Take two sports teams with different levels of skill, for example. In a single game, the team considered weaker can pull off a surprise win. However, over a span of several games, the stronger team will usually pull ahead.

In war, various factors, like the element of surprise, can allow the offense to temporarily overcome an inherently stronger defense. In 1940, the Germans quickly overran the French by catching them off guard tactically and strategically. The French couldn't adapt their defense quickly enough and suffered too many crucial losses early on.

Next year, the Soviets fared even worse than the French initially; but due to geography they managed to survive two crucial years and, at Kursk in 1943, they showed how a well designed defense could stop cold even the best German tanks. The French themselves had a similar experience in WW1: after initially surviving for two hard years, they gave the German attackers a very bloody nose at Verdun.
At least this time it wasn't scrubbed for a Starliner issue. The capsule isn't responsible for the booster's valve issues. I'm guessing the Boeing reps in capcom were wiping their brows
Ha! I thought it was Shakespearean!

When you feed people confabulated information, it acts as an encompassing medium, a reality buffer, effectively making them more inert, less engaged, in actual reality. Brined.
So I think the statement is more like statistically in good universities you're more likely to meet other great engineers and cofounders. It of course doesn't mean all students from good universities are better from scrappy people community college. When it comes to reality, I'm a startup founder and how would I screen people? If someone went to Stanford it's a strong good signal. If another guy went to community college but has exceptional technical skills of course I'd hire him than an average Stanford graduates. School or past experience is just one signal but it's a strong signal.
The thing that is confusing here is you used to have to turn on less secure apps to use app passwords, and the article says that's getting removed for personal accounts. So while they don't say that they're removing IMAP via app passwords for personal accounts, there's a concern they might be effectively removing them it
It's been quite a few years since I last worked in live show production, but on any show at a venue where we couldn't be sure of access to clean power, humbuckers (not the guitar pickups, a nickname for what I believe was just a dumb 60hz notch filter or ground loop isolator inlined on house power taps) were a standard pack out in the road kit.

I would have expected that this decades-old and well established component of power infrastructure would have been commoditized by now and integrated into any dedicated AV performance/production space such as an auditorium.
Search for "portable ultrasonic washing machine" on Amazon/Aliexpress, looks like a hockey puck you drop into a bucket with water and clothes. Looks like the principle of operation is the same, just add a coffee filter.
Not quite. LCOE is useful building out capacity but it varies tremendously based on land availability / suitability and the feasibility of getting it into the transmission system. So these things have huge error bars. These are also about cost of producing the energy. What we need to think about is also the demand for energy. Solar is infinitely cheaper (that is, negative prices) at the ideal times. But then it’s gone entirely at others.

Gas is very good for those consistent other times. Batteries are not. Batteries are better for the excess demand during those off times. they offset the backup peaker gas plants as mentioned in the article.

All of which to say the batteries can eat away at the margins of gas plants, but it is incrementally less cost effective to replace each one.

If you operate in an environment where you can supply renewables outside of solar time in quantities high enough to not need the gas, the gas plants will become a lot less useful. Hydro power is the king here. If you don’t have that gas is still probably pretty important.

It might get to the point where a lot of these gas plants are less profitable because they expected to be more relevant and will not be able to justify their fixed costs. But shutting down those plants is probably more expensive to society than just subsidizing them to stay open.

So it’s complicated. The energy and battery side of the inflation reduction act has been HUGE though. Society doesn’t really get how much of an important investment the Biden admin has done here
Correct. That's the biggest downside of car infrastructure, we are bound(ed?) by the lowest common denominator. Once a slow car is blocking the way we just contribute to that same traffic.
>>no one has offered a serious argument why the new processes produce higher or even equivalent quality faculty as opposed to simply more diverse faculty.

This is worth debunking more directly: hiring is not and has never been meritocratic, it's heavily affected by networking and cliques (something like 70% of job hires aren't publicly listed, they just ask around if anyone has recommendations). The entire point of diversity hiring is to hire from outside of the existing cliques.
Show HN: A tool exploring Earth-like exoplanets from NASA TESS mission
This visualisation tool lets you delve into NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data and compare it with Earth characters.

It uses Martini Glass approach to navigate the data.

For the open source code:
https://github.com/Barqawiz/NASA_TESS_Narrative
Try it on firefox. Youtube studio is broken on chrome for me but works great in firefox.
They accept Apple branded computers for recycling if it has no trade in value (they'll try to get you an offer if it has any value). I have recycled damaged apple computers at the store before without trading in.
I agree with you. But, while not the same, it seems related that for example, the tax rate in the USA was a times as high as 94%

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/10/history-taxes.a...

I don't know how well that was at limiting wealth. Maybe people found ways to hide the money so it didn't get taxed. It also didn't limit wealth. 6% of a trillion is still 60 billion
Ask HN: Modern Networking Resources
Hi everyone, I teach Sysadmin and managing databases to 16-18 year olds. I try to keep myself up to date on what is happening in these spaces, but I often feel like my knowledge (I'm very familiar with the internet knowledge rabbit hole) is hampering my ability to simplify complicated systems for the younger generation who grew up being always online.

My own experience is with books like 'Computer Networking: A top down approach', ''Network Know-How', 'The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference'. These are great repositories of knowledge that go in depth on the topics, but are not suitable for students of a my age bracket.

Currently I'm guiding my students through the OSI reference model and focussing on network communication protocols. Are there even decent textbooks on the matter for this age category?

My ASK HN: Any advice on finding modern resources that keep everything that can serve as an introduction to networking? My preference would be books, blogs, magazines, YouTube or other video format, podcasts, ...

I don't mind making my own syllabus and course with proper bibliography, but a decent starting point would help. This will be my big summer holiday project.
Or David Eddings, or Tad Williams etc. :)
All these fantasy stuff are what kept me reading.

Although nowadays I read more manuals and research papers.

Or the occasional online xuanhuan novel.
I'd agree that "We're going to shove a chatbot in every single one of our products", like the recent Copilot integrations, would reek of shoe-horning and a possible company wide mandate.

But remarks more along the lines of "Looking back over the past decade, we've made use of ML models in some part of almost all of our products" seems fairly reasonable to me, not necessarily indicative of much other than machine learning being the best tool for an increasing number of tasks. If they weren't using ML-based echo cancellation in Teams calls for instance, they would have a worse product than competitors that do.
One hour by train from the major city is probably the missing link in the United States.
I'm not sure if you're being lax in your terminology or whether you are misinterpreting my point.

The problem is not that every window needs to open, it's that some windows need to open. In the building codes I've seen in the past for residential homes, that was expressed as a percentage of square feet of the room or entire building.

So, are you saying there are plenty of tall condos where no windows in a specific dwelling open, or that they have some windows that don't open? If they have no windows that don't open, do you mind mentioning where, as I'd be interested in what the solution was to the problem of needing to allow for passive ventilation.
At jobstash.xyz we have similar tech as part of our generalized scraping infra, and it’s been live for half a year performing optimally.
London has sky high rents for young professionals while also taxing them exorbitant amounts that ends up subsidize social housing for "economically inactive" people. I would not call that efficient.
The museum at Edwards AFB in California is amazing[0], but is located on the base so you have to get prior permission to visit it as a civilian.

When I was there a few years back, they were fundraising to move the museum to a more publicly accessible location. It looks like that was successful, and it will be re-opening soon: https://www.desertnews.com/news/article_c95e0a2c-edc4-11ed-9...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Flight_Test_Museum#C...
> Heck, you can't even build your own app for your own iPhone without buying another hardware (a Mac, this is not a software issue, this is a legal issue, iOS SDK is licensed to you on the condition of using on Apple hardware only) and a yearly subscription. How is this acceptable at all?

Because they set the terms of use of the SDK? You're not required to use it. You aren't required to develop for iOS. Just because Google gives it all away for free doesn't mean Apple has to.
> Canada, UK, Australia, NZ aren't that much better

I'd argue Australia is even worse, because at least in the US owner occupiers get mortgage interest deductions, in Australia only landlords can do that. Also, in the US residential mortgages are normally no-recourse (if you default you only lose the house), in Australia they are normally full-recourse (if it sells at foreclosure for less than you owe on the mortgage, you still owe that to the lender)
> Confused why people do this in the first place

Probably because every tutorial on the Internet, along with the docs, recommends doing it this way. All the gotchas are buried in the footnotes.
I still don't get why such questions are even asked as most jobs I've ever had not even remotely touched those and I've touched quite a few industries, technologies and types of companies.

To me, the value of a software engineer is to ask questions, make hypotheses and be able to iterate quickly. Balancing trees, leetcode and other algorithmic stuff on the spot sounds like bringing the dreadful education system structure to the real world.

Also if a senior person can't in 30/45 min of talking with someone figure out the general experience level then the problem is them, really.
I guess this is were Apple does things well within ecosystem.

I have: personal MacBook, work MacBook, personal iPad, personal iPhone, and an old personal iPhone I use as a lower-distraction music player. I also often connect to my Fire TV stick to listen to TV without disturbing others in the house.

With my AirPods, this is all pretty seamless these days. I never have to turn Bluetooth off on them.
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> I mean, it's 2024, do phones really still get slow?

Hardware is pretty beefed up but bloat keeps on growing, that is slowing things down considerably.
Fair Warning: Due to quirks of the law, and time dilation effects near the event horizon, you should not expect any insurance coverage which either you or the black hole's owner might have (life, disability, health, general liability, slip & fall, etc.) to actually pay out.
> Apple always compares product to product, never component to component when it comes to processors.

I don't think this is true. When they launched the M3 they compared primarily to M1 to make it look better.
I'd expect lots of employed people with families not to have 15 spare hours X the number of companies they are interviewing with
I had a phone since I was 8-9, and I used it to read under the table in class and everywhere else.

Wasn't the only one. We used infrared port to share books with other kids.
Ongoing discussion [0] (43 points, 3 hours ago, 33 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288281
Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
How are those "ridiculous scenarios?" Any attempt to base laws around the net worth of an individual is going to run into a hundred thousand such scenarios instantly. A person's "wealth" is simply not well defined. Neither ownership nor valuation of any kind of asset, other than cash itself, is nearly straightforward enough.
Been doing this for decades and every single day I've wished I was smart enough to solve valves.
Yeah probably not. Many established players in the game already and either way, adding fancy technology isn’t going to help the general public feel more trust in the system.
Computational Capacity of the Fastest Supercomputers
A very hard sci-fi novel about something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder (beware spoilers)
That could very well be true, but I also think it could change faster than people realize. Or that Apple has the ability to compartmentalize (kind of like how Apple can advocate for USB C adoption in some areas and fight it in others).

I'm not saying this to trash Apple - I think it's true of any corporation. If Apple starts losing revenue in 5 years because their LLM isn't good enough because they don't have enough data, they are still going to take it and have some reason justifying why theirs is privacy focused and everyone else is not.
>I’m not aware of any Western government that has so far gained the power to force its companies to affirmatively lie about whether they have shared logs with the government

Do you see the problem with this statement?
Not a lawyer, but one of the arguments TikTok makes is:

> Third, the Chinese government has made clear that it would not permit a divestment of the recommendation engine that is a key to the success of TikTok in the United States. Like the United States, 5 China regulates the export of certain technologies originating there. China's export control rules cover "information processing technologies" such as "personal interactive data algorithms." China's official news agency has reported that under these rules, any sale of recommendation algorithms developed by engineers employed by ByteDance subsidiaries in China, including for TikTok, would require a government license.

Number one, saying that the US government is being unfair because your company is bound by strict regulation by another government is not going to win you any sympathy.

But, more importantly, doesn’t this imply that ByteDance (China) maintains the algorithm, and the US subsidy doesn’t really have any of their own algorithms? Isn’t that at-odds with what TikTok US previously said? This seems to be a legal document saying that no US company may own the algorithm without a license. Doesn’t the US subsidy have a license? If so, that should transfer to the new owners of the US entity. But if it doesn’t have a license… then that sort of makes the US government’s case for them.
On “privacy”: If Apple owned the Search app versus paying Google, and used their own ad network (which they have for App Store today), Apple will absolutely use your data and location etc to target you with ads.

It can even be third party services sending ad candidates directly to your phone and then the on-device AI chooses which is relevant.

Privacy is a contract not the absence of a clear business opportunity. Just look at how Apple does testing internally today. They have no more respect for human privacy than any of their competitors. They just differentiate through marketing and design.
I would like you to be the interviewer of all my future jobs, please.
I'm looking randomly at an RT from Rasha al Aqeedi right now of a Tel Aviv protest with signs like "STOP BOMBING RAFAH" and "DROP FOOD NOT BOMBS".

It is simply false that "Israelis" don't care about the lives of Gazan civilians. There are Israelis that don't (they are disproportionately likely to be Israelis of Middle Eastern descent, for demographic reasons similar to the urban/rural political divisions in the US), just as there are Americans that don't care about Mexican lives and Palestinians who don't care about Jewish lives and Zaydi Yemenis who don't care about Sunni Yemeni lives. People are awful and wonderful and complicated all at the same time.
Lol skyrim? hahah
I'm a huge xkcd hater, but I would give that strip credit for unintentionally capturing a snapshot of the internet. Most anonymous WordPress blogs languished in obscurity, truly people's live journals that no one cared to comment on, let alone add you to their blogroll. That era of discourse has been superseded by far louder (and dumb and obnoxious) Mediums.
Congrats! Looks like a fun and useful tool.

> in 10 years,

It is very uncommon for these types of projects to stay alive for 10 years. It would be interesting to read what sort of contingency planning you have in place to be able to guarantee ten years of service!
People have said that for 10 years with Toyota. They've had a headstart with their hybrids and have done nothing but squander it with Hydrogen aspirations and other nonsense compliance car type stuff. I'll believe it when I see it. Hyundai/Kia seem to be taking Toyota's place for the EV future here.
Ongoing discussion [0] (23 points, 4 hours ago, 32 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40287519
HAH oh my god I hadn’t seen that yet.

Duly noted. Thanks for telling me.
I think it's clear that Boeing, ULA, and all of the "old guard" space companies are still trying to catch up to the disruption from SpaceX and the ensuing boom of innovation that followed it. Let's face it - Starliner would not have even been thought of without SpaceX bringing competition. They were caught flat footed and had to scramble to catch up. Now we see the results of that - a capsule that's only partly baked.
> capsule isn't responsible for the booster's valve issues

But Boeing is responsible for putting it on an Atlas V. Why?! There are fewer than thirty of them left! Why aren’t they practicing on a modern stack?

I’ll eat my words if Starliner can rapidly transition to another booster. But given its track record in software alone, I’m incredibly sceptical.
why would people want to live there if there are no jobs there
Please name someone who is remotely close to Ronald Reagan's politics and who is in charge in California. The left is in charge. They have a supermajority.
Article title: How the Indian Ocean Geoid Low Was Formed
Half wave length in what frequency would be the first thing that would give me pause to this. I'm reading this after your edit, but even before I got to the edit my brain was already heading towards nope
Heck, book-length political treatises by anonymous insiders barely got any traction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Hubris
Do they get paid the rate of the position in hours?
Yes, apple fixed this by appending to the protocol. The Bluetooth standard should consider doing something similar.
> This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy

Is this the same apple whose devices do not work at all unless you register an apple account?
> In my mind, if you're someone who types in HN comments in a rage because your text editor

WebGPU exists. It works with Metal. Vulkan could have also worked and MoltenVK would have bridged it to Apple. No, this is just like every other project that only works on MacOS: a mentality I really can't comprehend or explain.